Focus on your work by blocking your favorite productivity killers.

This Python script blocks certain websites from being accessed. You can customize the URLs you want to block by editing blocklist.txt.

The Python Website Blocker currently only works for Windows. Download blocker.py, pomodoro.py and blocklist.txt and place them in the same directory. You can pip install win10toast for nice Windows notifications from. But you don't have to, notifications are also printed in your command line tool.

To run the block script, you have to run your command line tool with administrator privileges. To block websites:

cd /your/directory/
python blocker.py

To unblock all websites:

python blocker.py unblock

The Pomodoro feature blocks your defined websites for 25 minutes. It notifies you after the 25 minutes are over and gives you access to all websites for 5 minutes (although I recommend getting up and stretching instead 🙂). This cycle is repeated 4 times. You have to run your command line tool with administrator privileges.

python pomodoro.py

The script blocks URLs by modifying the hosts file. Blocked URLs are redirected to 127.0.0.1. The script backs up the original hosts file, you will not lose any customizations and you can always reset to the original state.

• Turn script into installable Python package
• extend to Linux and MacOS
• Add ability to schedule or block for specific period of time